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NY Loose

Brief Bio
NY Loose was an early ‘90’s rock/punk-pop band that came out of New York City’s Lower East Side. The band consisted of 4 members: Brijitte West on vocals and guitar, bassist Danny Nordahl, an additional guitarist Marc Diamond, and Pete Lloyd on drums. The band was together for roughly 4 years, has released 3 records, seven singles, and toured both the United States and the UK in this time.

Pre Loose
Brijitte West grew up the 11th of 12 children. She grew up in New Jersey, 45 minutes away from New York’s Lower East Side and reports having spent a lot of her growing up there. With a musically inclined family, it wasn’t surprising when West began stealing and listening her brothers albums, and eventually picked up a guitar. Before NY Loose, West was in a band named “Sprokett” with Dee Dee Ramone from the Ramones. He spotted her in a bar one night and was an instant fan and then decided to jump on board for whatever musical project she was venturing into. It lasted one gig. After Sprokett, West and fellow band member Ricky Bacchus replaced Dee Dee Ramone with a bassist named Toad and renamed the band “Viva la Wattage”.

Bio
The band started with 2 original members; Brijitte West as fronts-woman and the bassist Danny Nordahl. The two had met in 1988, and it wasn’t until 1994 they decided to start up a band. Nordahl and West decided to name their band “Loose” after a classic Stooges song, but shortly after added New York to the title, when issues arose with another local band sharing the same name. Brijitte produced and personally distributed copies of the bands first single entitled “Bitch”. After a series of 7” singles, popularity started to rise for the fleshling band in the UK, which began a 6 month British residency that lasted from January until June of 1995. On the first night of the residency, West and Nordahl met Pete Lloyd in London and acquired a drummer. American critics soon started an agreement of good reviews and it wasn’t long before Loose was signed with label Hollywood Records. It wasn’t until they started tracking they’re first major label debut album that they met and added Marc Diamond as a permanent part of the band as a guitarist. Year of the Rat was then released in 1996. Loose went on tour that year opening for Marilyn Manson .. Track 12 of Year of the Rat, “Spit”, made it’s way onto the soundtrack for “Crow: City of Angels”. Despite the growing followers, the band split up shortly after. West has been quoted as saying she has since wanted a reunion and a second shot, but it has never happened.

Loosen Up! (1995)
(5 track EP)

Flipside Records

Year of the Rat (1996)
Hollywood Records

Post Loose
After the split of NY Loose, Marc Diamond and Danny Nordahl went on to create the short lived band Motochrist. Brijitte West had a brief gig with a band called Diamond Star Halo in 1998 and later Famous Monsters. She ultimately moved back to London where she currently lives with her husband and children.

10 years after the breakup, West got together a new group of musicians and “NY Loose” made an appearance across the UK with a few old songs and an all new band lineup. The tour dates were played by West doing vocals and guitar, Rick Jones on guitar, Tommy Spencer on bass, and female drummer Laura Fares. On February 10th 2010 there was a one night only special reunited show played by NY Loose at the Viper Room on Sunset Blvd in West Hollywood.

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